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This is Your Day-TODAY: Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, Oct.03……..

1831 – Britishers captured Mysore (pic credit-Unsplash).

1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. (He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States. Considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre).

1863 – US President Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

1899 – J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

1906 – SOS adopted as warning signal by first conference on wireless telegraphy. (SOS remained the maritime radio distress signal until 1999, when it was replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. SOS is still recognised as a visual distress signal).

1922 – First facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

1952 – First video recording on magnetic tape.

1974 – Pelé retires as soccer player. (Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, is widely regarded as the greatest football player of all time).

1977 – Indira Gandhi arrested. (Mrs. Gandhi’s arrest had been the topic of discussion at almost every “informal Cabinet meeting” of the Janta Party. Finance Minister Charan Singh, Industry Minister George Fernandes, Health Minister Raj Narain, and others had been pressing for Mrs Gandhi’s immediate arrest. The Prime Minister Morarji Desai had advised caution: “We must take action only according to the law,” he had warned).

1988 – Mithileshwar Singh freed by captors. (He had been kidnaped by the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine on January 24, 1987, at the Beirut University College, where he was chairman of the business administration department. A White House statement said, “Our pleasure at his release is tempered by the knowledge that nine innocent Americans are among those still held hostage in Lebanon”).

2010 – 19th Commonwealth Games open in Delhi.

2010 – An audio recording by Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven’t done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan.

2018 – 259 people died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in “Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care”. (From January 2008 to July 2021 it was estimated that there were 379 people who died in selfie related accidents.)

Born….

1903 – Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist.

1943 – Gurcharan Das, Management Guru and writer (pic credit-LinkedIn).

1949 – JP Dutta, veteran film director who made famous films on Armed combat and India’s recent Wars like Border, Paltan, Ghulami, Hathyar, Refuggee etc. Won several awards like National Integration Award, Filmfare etc..

Titbits….

1945 – Elvis Presley’s first public appearance at the age of 10 (pic credit-The Famous People).

2018 – Most expensive whisky ever sold at auction for $1.1 million, the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
You may have known….

276 tons of earth need to be mined to produce a single one-carat diamond.

 

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan}